Psychology of Happiness: Why Your Brain Doesn't Naturally Choose Joy: What if happiness isn't something that happens to you, but something you're accidentally training your brain to avoid?
That's the uncomfortable question behind one of the largest happiness studies ever conducted. Researchers didn't ask thousands of people what made them happy. They asked something stranger: could a brain be taught to feel joy, the same way a muscle is taught to lift more weight? The answer changes how we should think about a bad mood, a hard week, even a hard year.
